Research Interests:  Theory and Modeling of Groundwater Flow, Statistical Hydrology, Water Resources  Systems Analysis, Bayesian Decision Theory, Geostatistics, Environmental Risk Analysis.

Education:
1986    B.S.             Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engin., Polytechnic University, New York. 

1986    M.S.           Hydraulics and Water Res., Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engin., Polytechnic University, New York.

1994    Ph.D.         Groundwater Hydrology, Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resour., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (advisor: Shlomo P. Neuman).

Professional Experience:
2001-Present       Associate Professor: Dept. of Geological Sciences; Marine Science Program; Associate Faculty:
                          School of the Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

1995-2001:          Assistant Professor: Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

1992-1995:          Senior Staff Consultant, Intera Inc., Office of Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada.

1986-1992:          Graduate Research Associate, Dept. of Hydrology and Water Res., University of Arizona, Tucson.

Summer 1988:     Modeling Consultant, EMCON Co.

1985-1986:          Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engin., Polytechnic University, New York.

Honors and Awards:
Advisory Board, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction (GADR), 2002-.

Who's Who in the World, 1999-2004; Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1998-2004.

South Carolina Research Institute "Initializers" Award, 1998.

Researchers of Carolina, 1996, 1997, 2001.

Professional Service:
1. Editorial Board:                         Journal: Stochastic Hydrology & Hydraulics, 1998-1999;

                                                     Journal: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 1999-2003.

2. Conference Organizer:             Chapman Conference, American Geophysical Union, 1998;      
Hydrology Symposium I: Modeling Aquifer Heterogeneity, 2000; VI Int. Conference Protection and Restoration of Environ, 2002.

3.  Session Chair:                         Geological Society of America, 1997; IV Int. Conference Protection and Restoration of Environ, 1998; Chapman Conference, American Geophysical Union, 1998; 1999 HELECO International Conference; V Int. Conference Protection and Restoration of Environ, 2000; VI Int. Conference Protection and Restoration of Environ, 2002; International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), XXX Congress, 2003.

4.  Reviewer:                                  (1) Water Resources Research; (2) Stochastic Hydrology & Hydraulics; (3) Transport in Porous Media; (4) Advances in Water Resources; (5) Geophysical Research Letters; (6) Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment; (7) Environmental Engineering Science; (8) Environmental Science & Technology; (9) Mathematical Geology; (10) Hydro-informatics; (11) Proposals NSF, NIEHS, and DOE.

5.  Univ. of South Carolina:                 Director: Environmental Geosciences: Professional Master’s Degree, 2001-;
Faculty Senate, 97-00; Dept. of Geological Sciences: Advisory Board, 2002-; Chair: Hydrology Search, 98-99; Chair: Annual Peer Review Committee, 2000; Chair: T&P Committee, 2001-2002; Chair: Academic Standards and Petitions; Seminar Series Organizer, 97-99. 

 

Books:

Fletcher, C. D. and E. K. Paleologos, “Environmental Risk and Liability Management for Corporations and Consultants,” Published by the Geological Society of America (GSA) and the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG), 140 pp., June 2000.

Lerche, I. and E. K. Paleologos, "Environmental Risk Analysis," McGraw-Hill, Professional Engineering Series, 436 pp., April 2001.

 

Journal Publications:

Paleologos, E. K., Lerche, I., and T. Avanidou, “Identifying Physical and Economic Indicators for Improved Environmental Risk Assessments,” Chapter in ASCE volume “The World Congress On Natural Disaster Reduction” (in print) 2004.

Paleologos, E. K., and S. Madabushi, “Bayesian Analysis of Remediation Alternatives for Contaminated Groundwater Sites,” Jour. Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, 2004 (in review).

Avanidou, T, and E. K. Paleologos, "Prioritization of Parameter and Model Variation Uncertainty Effects in the Sampling and Modeling of Unsaturated Flow," Jour. Water Resour. Res., 2003 (in submission).

Sarris, T., and E. K. Paleologos, “Hydraulic Conductivity Upscaling in 3-Dimensional, Heterogeneous, Isotropic Numerical Elements,” Jour. of Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, 2204 (in submission).

Scheidt, J., Lerche, I., and E. Paleologos, “Environmental and Economic Risks from Sinkholes in West-Central Florida,” Environmental Geosciences, 2004 (accepted, May 2004).

Syed, T. H., Lakshmi V., Paleologos E.K., Lohmann, D., and K. Mitchell, “Analysis of Process Controls in Land Surface Hydrological Cycle Over Continental United States,” Jour. Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2004 (accepted, August 2004).

Paleologos, E.K., “A New Decision-Making Procedure for Assessing Resource Allocation and Uncertainty Reduction in Hazardous Waste Projects,” Jour. of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier, April 2005 (accepted).

Sarris T., Tolika, M., and E. K. Paleologos, “Incorporation of Analytic Element Models in Monte Carlo Studies of Precipitation and Infiltration Local Changes,” Jour. of Hydroinformatics, 2004 (in print).

Tolika, M., and E. K. Paleologos, “Groundwater Modeling of a Complex Hydrologic System in South Carolina Through the Use of Analytic Elements,” Jour. Water, Air & Soil Pollution, pp. 215-225, 2004.

Sarris, T., and E. K. Paleologos, “Numerical Investigation of the Anisotropic Hydraulic Conductivity Behavior in Heterogeneous Porous Media,” Jour. of Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, Vol. 18, pp. 188-197, 2004.

Lerche, I., and E. K. Paleologos, “Limiting Risk in Environmental Problems: Corporate Budget Constraints and Minimum Involvement,” Jour. Environmental Geosciences, Vol. 10(2), pp. 59-69, 2003.

Paleologos, E.K., Avanidou, T., and I. Lerche, “Resource Allocation in Environmental Projects under Uncertain Physical and Economic Conditions,” Jour. Environmental Geosciences, Vol. 10(1), pp. 18-27, 2003.

Paleologos, E.K., Book review: “Stochastic Methods for Flow in Porous Media: Coping with Uncertainties,” authored by D. Zhang, EOS, Vol. 84. (9), p. 84, March 4, 2003.

Lempp, C., Lerche, I., and E. K. Paleologos, “Environmental Concerns: Catastrophic Events and Insurance,” Energy Exploration & Exploitation, Vol. 20 (4), pp. 309-324, 2002.

Avanidou, T, and E. K. Paleologos, "Infiltration in Stratified, Heterogeneous Soils: Relative Importance of Parameters and Model Variations," Jour. Water Resour. Res., Vol. 38(11), pp. 14(1-15), 2002.

Lerche, I., and E. K. Paleologos, “Control Function Measures for Hydrodynamic Problems,” Jour. Mathematical Geology, Vol. 34(3), pp. 345-355, 2002.

Paleologos, E. K., and I. Lerche, “Option Coverage Techniques for Environmental Projects,” Jour. Management in Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 18(1), pp. 3-6, 2002.

Paleologos, E.K., Book review: “Subsurface Flow and Transport: A Stochastic Approach,” G. Dagan and S. P. Neuman (eds.), Jour. Mathematical Geology, Vol. 34(1), pp. 101-104, 2002.

Lerche, I., and E. K. Paleologos, “Groundwater Flow: Models, Data, and Uncertainties,” in “Geologic Modeling and Simulation: Sedimentary Systems,” D. F. Merriam and J. C. Davis (eds.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences, New York, pp. 247-269, 2001.

Lerche, I., and E. K. Paleologos, “Optimal Involvement in Multiple Environmental Projects under Budgetary Constraints,” Jour. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, Vol. 14(6), pp. 371-383, 2000.

Paleologos, E. K., and I. Lerche, "Working Interest Optimization in the Transport and Burial of Hazardous Wastes," Jour. Environmental Geosciences, Vol. 7(2), pp. 106-114, 2000.

Paleologos, E. K., and T. S. Sarris, “Upscaling of Hydraulic Conductivity in Three-dimensional, Heterogeneous, Bounded Formations,” XIII Computational Methods in Water Resources, Bentley et al. (eds), Balkema, Rotterdam, Vol. 2, pp. 743-747, 2000.

Paleologos, E.K., Sarris T. and A. Desbarats, "Numerical Estimation of Effective Hydraulic Conductivity in Leaky Heterogeneous Aquitards," GSA Special Volume: "Theory, Modeling and Field Investigation in Hydrogeology: A Special Volume in Honor of Shlomo P. Neuman's 60th Birthday," pp. 119-127, 2000.

Paleologos, E. K., and I. Lerche, "Multiple Decision-Making Criteria in the Transport and Burial of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes," Jour. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, Vol. 13 (6), pp. 381-395, 1999.

Paleologos, E.K., and C. D. Fletcher, “Assessing Risk Retention Strategies for Environmental Project Management,” Jour. Environmental Geosciences, Vol. 6(3), pp. 130-138, 1999.

Fletcher, C. D., Rightmire, C. M., Horn, M., and E. K. Paleologos, "Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment Awareness Programs for Fully-Integrated International Corporations," Jour. Pollution Prevention Review, pp. 77-84, Jan. 1999.

Fletcher, C. D., and E. K. Paleologos, “Environmental Risk and Liability Management and its Influence on Profitability,” Jour. Environmental Quality Management, Vol. 8(4), pp. 21-34, 1999.

Fletcher, C. D., and E. K. Paleologos, “The Impact of Environmental Policy on Business Strategy and Profits,” Jour. Environmental Quality Management, Vol. 9(1), pp. 35-42, 1999.

Fletcher, C. D., and E. K. Paleologos, "Digital Image Processing Techniques for Enhancing Wetland Areas and Turbidity in SPOT Panchromatic Data," Jour. Professional Geologist, pp. 3-8, Sept. 1998.

Paleologos, E. K., S. P. Neuman, and D. Tartakovsky, "Effective Hydraulic Conductivity of Bounded, Strongly Heterogeneous Porous Media," Water Resour. Res., 32(5), 1333-1341, 1996.

Neuman, S. P., O. Levin, S. Orr, E. Paleologos, D. Zhang, and Y.-K. Zhang, "Nonlocal Representations of Subsurface Flow and Transport by Conditional Moments," Computational Stochastic Mechanics, A. H-D. Cheng, and C. Y. Yang (ed.), Computational Mechanics Publisher, Boston, pp. 451-473, 1993.

Neuman, S. P., S. Orr, O. Levin, and E. Paleologos, "Theory and High-Resolution Finite Element Analysis of 2-D and 3-D Effective Permeabilities in Strongly Heterogeneous Porous media," Mathematical Modeling in Water Resources, T. F. Russell et al. (ed), Vol. 2, pp. 118-136, Elsevier Sci., New York, 1992.

 

Refereed Proceedings (Selected):

Sarris, T., Tolika, M., and E. K. Paleologos, "Quantification of the Effect of Infiltration Rate in the Savannah River Site, SC, Using Analytic Elements," 4th International Conference on the Analytical Element Method, France, April 2003.

Tolika, M., and E. K. Paleologos, "Analytic Element Model of Groundwater Flow in a Complex Hydrologic System in South Carolina," VI Intern. Confer. Protection and Restoration of Environ., Vol. 1, pp. 57-64, July 2002.

vanidou, D., and E. K. Paleologos, "Influence of Model Assumptions on the Saturation and Pressure Head Profiles in Unsaturated Heterogeneous Media," V Intern. Confer. Protection and Restoration of Environ., Vol. 1, pp. 59-66, July 2000.

Sarris, T. S., and E. K. Paleologos, “Application and Comparison of two Random Field Generating Methods in Groundwater Flow Problems,” V Inter. Confer. Protection and Restoration of Environ., Vol. 1, pp. 67-74, July 2000.

Paleologos, E. K., and I. Lerche, “Optimal Involvement in Environmental Projects: Working Interest Optimization in a Single and Multiple Projects under Budgetary Constraints,” Paris 2000, 1^st World Congress of International Water Association, July 3-7, 2000.

Paleologos, E. K., and T. Sarris, "Issues of Scale and Measurement in Subsurface Hydrology," in Proceed. 4th European Commission on Water Resour., pp. 116-121, June 1999.

Avanidou, D., Paleologos, E. K., and I. Lerche, "Analysis of the Relative Contributions of Uncertain Parameters in Problems in Subsurface Hydrology," in Proceed. HELECO Int. Conf. "Environmental Technology for the 21st Century," pp. 146-152, June 1999.

Paleologos, E. K., "Alternatives in Environmental Project Risk Management," in Proceed. HELECO Int. Conf., "Environmental Technology for the 21st Century," pp. 132-138, June 1999 (Invited).

Paleologos, E. K., Avanidou, T., and T. Sarris, "Stochastic Analysis of Groundwater Flow in Heterogeneous Aquifers," in Proceed. IV Int. Confer. Protection and Restoration of Environ., pp. 37-44, 1998.

Paleologos, E. K., Mylopoulos Y. and I. Lerche, "Optimal Use of Multiple Statistical Criteria in Bayesian Decision-Making," in Proceed. IV Int. Confer. Protection and Restoration of Environ., pp. 863-870, 1998.

Paleologos, E. K., and M. Karamouz, "Hydrological Database Management," Computer Appl. in Water Resour., H. C. Torno (ed.), ASCE, pp. 639-648, 1985.

Abstracts and Reports (Selected):

Sarris, T., Tolika, M., and E.K. Paleologos, "The Incorporation of Analytic Elements Models in Monte Carlo Studies of Precipitation and Infiltration Local Changes," XXX Congress, International Assoc. of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), August 2003.

Paleologos, E.K., “Scaling Issues in Surface and Subsurface Hydrology,” XXX Congress, International Assoc. of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), August 2003 (Invited).

Lerche, I., Paleologos, E. K., and J. Scheidt, "The Environmental Risk of Sinkholes: Applications to the regions of North Rhine, Westfalia, Germany, and West-Central Florida, USA," XXX Congress, International Assoc. of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), August 2003.

Paleologos, E. K., and S. Madabhushi, "Risk Analysis of Remediation Alternatives for a Contaminated Groundwater Site in South Carolina, USA", XXX Congress, International Assoc. of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), August 2003.

Madabhushi, S., Parfenova, A., and E. K. Paleologos, "Using Landfills, Waste to Energy Facilities, and Recycling Centers in an Integrated Framework to Address Solid Waste Management Problems," XXX Congress, International Assoc. of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), August 2003.

Syed, H. T., V. Lakshmi, D. Lohmann, E. K. Paleologos, “Spatio-temporal analysis of input and output from the NOAH land surface model in the North American LDAS project,” Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, May 13-17, 2002.

Avanidou, T. and E. K. Paleologos, “A Stochastic framework to prioritize site characterization and modeling needs,” Society of Sedimentary Geology Conference: Ancient and Modern Coastal Depositional Environments, Charleston, SC, March 24-27, 2002.

Sarris, T. and E. K. Paleologos, “Scaling issues of hydraulic conductivity in heterogeneous anisotropic aquifers,” SEPM Conference: Ancient and Modern Coastal Depositional Environments, Charleston, SC, March 24-27, 2002.

Paleologos, E.K., “Improving vulnerability and risk assessments for the environment,” International Workshop on Disaster Reduction, ASCE, Arlington, August 19-22, 2001.

Tolika, M., and E.K. Paleologos, “The use of semi-analytical methods for modeling groundwater flow problems,” USC, March, 2001. 

Paleologos, E.K., and T. Avanidou "Effect of distribution type and relative importance of uncertain parameters in unsaturated flow problems," Abstract, AGU Spring Meeting, EOS Transactions, Vol. 81(19), p. S260, Washington D.C., 2000.

Paleologos, E.K., “Stochastic Flow Models and Relative Importance of Uncertain Parameters,” Hydrology Symposium I: Modeling Aquifer Heterogeneity, Columbia, SC, January 2000 (Invited).

Paleologos, E. K., and T. Sarris, "Relations of heterogeneous aquifers parameters at distinct scales," Abstract, 1999 AGU Spring Meeting, EOS Transactions, Vol. 80(17), p. S108, April 27, 1999 (Invited).

Fletcher, C. D., and E. K. Paleologos, "Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Techniques for Environmental and Natural Resource Assessments," Abstract, 1998 GSA Annual Meeting, Toronto, Vol. 30(7), p.A-358, 1998.

Sarris, T., and E. K. Paleologos, "Effective Properties of Heterogeneous Isotropic Aquitards," in Abstracts of National Conference on Environmental Remediation Science and Technology, Greensboro, N.C., p. 49, 1998.

Paleologos, E. K., Sarris, T., Avanidou, T., and A. Desbarats, "Saturated Flow in Heterogeneous Aquifers", EOS, Transactions, Amer. Geoph. Union, Vol. 79 (17), p. S160, 1998.

Paleologos, E. K., and I. Lerche, "Hierarchical Structure of Uncertainties in Unsaturated Flow and Transport through Heterogeneous Media," Annales Geophysicae, Europ. Geoph. Soc., p. C271, 1997.

Bene, K. J., Ray, R. P., Meadows, M. E., and E. K. Paleologos, "Application of Geostatistics to Site Characterization," Annales Geophysicae, Europ. Geoph. Soc., p. C266, 1997.

Bene, K. J., and E. K. Paleologos, "Geostatistical Analyses of Laboratory and In-situ Measurements of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity," Abstr., Southeastern Sec., Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 29(3), p. A4, 1997.

Paleologos, E. K., and S. P. Neuman, "Effective Hydraulic Conductivity of Bounded, Strongly Nonuniform Porous Media," EOS, Transactions, Amer. Geoph. Union, Vol. 74 (16), p. 157, 1993.

Maddock III, T., Sully, M., Guzman, A., Wittmeyer, G., and E. K. Paleologos, "Unsaturated Groundwater Flow Modeling for Proposed Cholla Landfill," Dept. of Hydrol. and Water Resour., University of Arizona Report, 1989.

Karamouz, M., and E. K. Paleologos, "Application of Bayesian Decision Theory to Water Quality Monitoring in the New York Metropolitan Area," Amer. Soc. of Civil Engin., Water Forum, 1986.